He’s obviously trying to be polite, but you can see some shade being thrown, and he eventually admits he didn’t like some of the lightsaber technique. This is, after all, a man who kept his lightsaber and had it engraved “bad motherf*cker.” He takes his lightsabers very seriously.

Being disappointed in some of the fight choreography in Star Wars: The Force Awakens doesn’t seem to have weakened any of Jackson’s enthusiasm for Star Wars in general, however. You can tell he’s still passionate about the franchise in an interview with Seth Meyers on Tuesday night, the same interview where he mentions he didn’t know he’s in a feud with Donald Trump. He talked about how he landed the role, how surprised he was to learn he’d have a scene with Yoda, and how he picks movie roles based on what he would have gone to see when he was a kid. As he says, “Why else would I do Snakes on a Plane?”

he got shot in the gut by chewies crossbolt blaster not 2min before the fight. they spent most of the movie showing how powerful that blaster was by blowing things up and killing people with grazing shots just to justify weakening him to the point 2 novices took him to the limit

right after kylo ren kills him chewie screams and shoots him in the stomach with the bowcaster. the same bowcaster that exploded rocks, killed storm troopers in a single shot and cause tons more damage throughout the movie with the sole intention of leading to that point to show how badly he was injured by the shot to the gut. the shot that killed others easily wounded him enough to be taken down by 2 novice fighters

I think the bigger problem to Jackson’s critique in TFA was, how on earth did Finn and Rey hold their own against Darth Emo when he’s nearly finished his training while those two just picked up a light sabre for the first time? Well, that and the fact Ren could have choked both of them out before the sword fight, but, then we wouldn’t have a movie.

they did explain it. 2min before the fight he got hit right in the stomach by chewies blaster crossbow. which if you paid attention they focused multiple times how destructive and powerful that weapon is in no less than 3 fight scenes in the movie. 2 of which han solo does a one liner with it. they built up that weapon as some beast of a weapon capable of killing a normal person easily to weaken him to the point of being taken to the limit by 2 novice fighter

I had an issue with Rey actually beating Kylo in the fight, but it’s more because the prequels poisoned me into thinking that it takes 10-20 years to be properly trained as a Jedi, and once you are trained you’re some kind of superhero. If you ignore the prequels the fight is a little more believable. My thought is that Kylo was just messing around with Finn during the fight, and Rey was able to block the choke/mind control stuff and had Kylo injured and freaking out that he was actually fighting someone who knew how to use the force.

Lightsaber fights aren’t about the fight, they’re about all the drama going on around the fight. Darth Vader and old Obi-Wan banging their lightsabers together has a fuckton more emotion than any of the boring lightsaber fights in the prequels